Should An 8 Year Old Girl Be Allowed Medical Marijuana?
A local Amarillo family seeks medical marijuana to treat their 8 year old daughter's condition. Jilli Harmon, a happy young girl, has received multiple medications for seizures, but none have seemed to bring a solution. Her family believes a simple solution could be out there, and that solution is medical marijuana.
Should an 8 year old girl be prescribed marijuana, even if it is a simple solution?
This is a very hard one to form an opinion on! If medical marijuana will in fact stop her seizures, it seems a logical solution. But an 8 year old girl being prescribed medical marijuana? That seems immoral. Talk about a conundrum!
"Jilli's mom, Becca, says at times, seizures take control, making her eyes roll back and her breath catch. They eventually bring her to crying. This can happen up to 40 times a day to children who have spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with seizure disorder and developmental delays.
After countless medications, and a period off of them, the Harmons have found what they think could be a simple solution to Jilli’s problem: Medical marijuana.
“We know it doesn’t work for everyone, but there are some really amazing success stories, and it’s really cool to see these kids come alive,” Becca Harmon said. “The seizures really take them over.
“We just really want to find her some relief. We had a neurologist tell us a few years ago that the brain is so busy having seizures, that it can’t do anything else.
She is non-verbal and doesn’t feed herself, and if we could help her do any of that, if she could talk to us, even a few words, that would be life changing for us and her.”
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